Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.